The latest crime statistics available from the Denver Police Department don’t feature a lot of good news. The stats available at this writing cover January-November 2015 — figures we’ve compared to the same period the previous year. And the numbers are up in seven of nine categories, including all four offenses…
Last month, we told you about the arrests of three teenage girls in Colorado for alleged violent plots against their respective schools. Two of them were sixteen-year-olds who attended Mountain Vista High School — and who authorities in Douglas County took into custody on suspicion of conspiracy to commit first-degree…
If you’re wondering what the hell has been going on on 84th Avenue between Interstate 25 and Confer Road this morning, the short answer is: plenty. Roads were closed and a SWAT team was dispatched after a police chase involving two female carjacking suspects. The standoff ended a short time…
Corrie Houck was once a candidate for Denver City Council’s second district — but the petition to get her name on the ballot contained some names of folks known for residing elsewhere. Examples: Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, who are known to live on Sesame Street. As for John Charles…
Colorado Department of Corrections officials say that a push to reduce the use of solitary confinement over the past few years has paid off handsomely — resulting in a dramatic reduction in the number of prisoners in lockdown, a drop in inmate suicides and assaults on staff, and complete elimination…
No one knows exactly how much taxpayer money was spent on the Aurora theater shooting case, but the three-year investigation/trial was surely one of the most — if not the most — expensive in Colorado history. Figures obtained by CU News Corps from several public agencies reveal that the investigation…
Fresh from pleading guilty to distributing child porn and having sex with underage hookers, former Subway pitchmeister Jared Fogle arrived in Colorado a few days ago to begin serving his fifteen-year federal prison sentence. Why Colorado? Because that’s what we do here. We’re the top turnkeys, the customary custodians of…
In October 2014, we told you about the shocking murders of Amanda Anders and Nancy Worrell, who were gunned down in a Denver-area apartment, and the subsequent arrest of Jose King. A jury has now found King guilty on all counts in the case, which was sparked by an argument…
Last night, a suspected car thief was critically injured in an officer-involved shooting in north Denver. According to 7News, the incident was the fourth officer-involved shooting over the past week in metro Denver, the sixth during the month of December and the eleventh in the Front Range since Halloween. Moreover,…
In the more than sixteen years since the attack at Columbine High School, folks in Colorado have seen numerous instances of teen boys being arrested for alleged school threats and violent plots. There have been far fewer instances of teen girls being implicated in such schemes. So it’s highly unusual…
With rent prices rising throughout California — and especially near ski areas, where low-income workers provide service for wealthy out-of-towners — plenty of folks are turning to services such as Craigslist in the hope of finding a bargain. But there were hidden costs involved in renting a room at a home in…
Prosecutors in southeastern Colorado are seeking execution for a 36-year-old inmate in the 2012 murder of corrections officer Mary Ricard at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility. The announcement came this week during a court hearing in the long-delayed case — despite persistent pleas from members of Ricard’s family not to…
Earlier this week, we posted our top forty women’s mug shots of 2015. Now, it’s the men’s turn — and included among their number are a smattering of celebrities (one known for screeching, plus a former reality-TV star, an ex-Denver Nugget and the heir to the Denver Broncos) and individuals…
The Knot, an online wedding registry, lists a date and place for when Kshena Andersen was scheduled to marry Cory Kreider: July 22 in Sterling, Colorado. Andersen also paid tribute to Kreider in a Flipgram of images set to the tune of the Train song “Marry Me.” But such a ceremony won’t…
Ian Scheuermann and Sean Hudson were both students at CU Boulder. Scheuermann is listed as a junior pursuing majors in computer science and physics, while Hudson was a graduate student focusing in psychology And while they don’t appear to have been friends, the Boulder Police Department maintains that they had mutual acquaintances —…
Following the officer-involved-shooting death of Tuan Hoang on November 30, the Aurora Police Department released an unusual amount of material in relation to the case, including radio transmissions and photos related to Hoang’s meat cleaver attack, including a gory image of a gash the weapon left in the head of…
Ask any corrections officer: Guarding high-profile criminals is one of the most difficult parts of the job. Not because the most notorious are more dangerous than the rest, but because other inmates know that one way to get famous is to go after the infamous. Serial cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer found…
Our roundup of 2015’s most memorable booking photos features images that run the gamut of human emotions. Anger. Pain. Defiance. Sorrow. Cockiness. And plenty more. Today’s post spotlights women’s mug shots. A post devoted to men’s mug shots is forthcoming. Check out the forty pics that stuck in our mind…
At this writing, news crews from multiple Denver TV stations are set up outside Denver Health Medical Center. The reason: the shooting of Denver police officer Tony Lopez Jr. — an officer who the Denver Police Department had credited as being among its best cops in 2014 thanks to a…
There were tears in the courtroom this afternoon when friends, family members and supporters of East High School student Elhadji Samba Dioum heard Denver County Court Judge Jonny C. Barajas announce that Dioum’s bail would be reduced from its original $100,000 to $5,000. Dioum’s lawyer, Gary Lozow, said that his…
Some marijuana dispensary stick-ups devolve into unintentional comedy — like, for instance, the case of Hayden May, who is said to have known everyone at the pot shop he tried to knock over earlier this year and actually apologized during the crime. The robbery of Sweet Leaf Pioneer Carbondale was infinitely more…
It may have simply been emotion talking, spurring Fern Delise to mention something she had no intention of putting into action. But given the concerns about violence in the wake of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings — exemplified by killer Robert Dear’s courtroom declaration yesterday that he is a “warrior…
